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What a dip in mortgage demand says about the housing market

Housing Wire

Interest in residential mortgage loans fell 8.3% for the week ending April 22, including a sharp decline in purchase applications, which indicates a potential weakness in home sales in the coming months, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association ‘s (MBA) latest survey. from a year ago. from the prior week and was down 16.6%

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How much will home prices climb over the next year?

Housing Wire

All year, the strength of homebuyer demand and the tight supply of homes for sale has meant that the market pretty rapidly found a floor on the home-price correction of 2022. After the mortgage rate spike in September 2022, we got significantly more bearish on home prices for 2023. If mortgage rates increase to the 7.5%

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Home sales will be weak in 2024 regardless of “soft landing”: Fannie Mae

Housing Wire

“In order to achieve a soft landing, economic growth will have to slow to a rate that is below trend for some time in order for the unemployment rate to rise sufficiently to cause wage growth to slow consistent with a 2% inflation target over the long term, but not so slow that the economy falls into a contraction,” the ESR group said.

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Fed retreat from MBS market sparks short-term uncertainty

Housing Wire

What happens when the Federal Reserve begins pulling back in a serious way from the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market that it has helped to prop up through billions of dollars in bond purchases since the start of the pandemic in 2020 — to the point where it now holds a $2.7 Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C.

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Help for troubled borrowers is on the way. But will it come soon enough?

Housing Wire

While the family’s income has been cut by almost half and inflation has increased their expenses, Wilen’s primary concern is his mortgage. In 2015, the family paid $250,000 for a 2,900-square-foot house in Ormond Beach, Florida. “They’ve had a manageable budget due to mortgage forbearance. .

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How to select appraisal comps

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on Fannie March Update, Bias and not using time adjustments, Climate change effects on risk and values, answer your phone if you want more appraisal business, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. Mortgage applications decreased 1.6 baths, 17,878 sq.ft.,

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IS THE HOUSING MARKET HEADED FOR A CRASH?

Will Springer Realtor

Adjustable-rate mortgages were cheap and easy to acquire, home prices were artificially inflated and supply plentiful. Then the housing bubble burst. Fast forward to today and markets here and across our nation are going through serious inflationary pressures. million single-family homes shy of demand. range won’t last forever.